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How to convert current date to epoch timestamp ?

Format current date:

29.08.2011 11:05:02
Bdfy
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That should do it

import time

date_time = '29.08.2011 11:05:02'
pattern = '%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S'
epoch = int(time.mktime(time.strptime(date_time, pattern)))
print epoch
Pierre Lacave
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Your code will behave strange if 'TZ' is not set properly, e.g. 'UTC' or 'Asia/Kolkata'

So, you need to do below

>>> import time, os
>>> d='2014-12-11 00:00:00'
>>> p='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
>>> epoch = int(time.mktime(time.strptime(d,p)))
>>> epoch
1418236200
>>> os.environ['TZ']='UTC'
>>> epoch = int(time.mktime(time.strptime(d,p)))
>>> epoch
1418256000
OneCricketeer
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Mohammad Shahid Siddiqui
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14

Assuming you are using a 24 hour time format:

import time;
t = time.mktime(time.strptime("29.08.2011 11:05:02", "%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S"));
Paul
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6
import time
def expires():
    '''return a UNIX style timestamp representing 5 minutes from now'''
    return int(time.time()+300)
Mal
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4

if you want UTC try some of the gm functions:

import time
import calendar

date_time = '29.08.2011 11:05:02'
pattern = '%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S'
utc_epoch = calendar.timegm(time.strptime(date_time, pattern))
print utc_epoch
Kevin Kreiser
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from time import time
>>> int(time())
1542449530


>>> time()
1542449527.6991141
>>> int(time())
1542449530
>>> str(time()).replace(".","")
'154244967282'

But Should it not return ?

'15424495276991141'
aks
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    time.time() returns current seconds after epoch (posix time) as a float, no need to adjust datetime.now(). If you did want to use datetime.now(), it has a `.timestamp` method which returns the same thing. – Andrew Nov 22 '18 at 06:00
  • You mean like this ? – aks Nov 22 '18 at 16:13
  • I think `int(time())` is exactly the answer to this question. I can't believe this has no upvotes after 18 months. – user1717828 Jun 12 '20 at 04:34
4

Short-hand to convert python date/datetime to Epoch (without microseconds)

int(current_date.strftime("%s")) # 2020-01-14  ---> 1578956400
int(current_datetime.strftime("%s")) # 2020-01-14 16:59:30.251176 -----> 1579017570
pymen
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3

Use strptime to parse the time, and call time() on it to get the Unix timestamp.

Sjoerd
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enter image description hereI think this answer needs an update and the solution would go better this way. 

from datetime import datetime

datetime.strptime("29.08.2011 11:05:02", "%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S").strftime("%s")

or you may use datetime object and format the time using %s to convert it into epoch time.

Akarsh Jain
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